Trader Joe’s Offers a New Way to Get Fat

Trader Joe’s Mac & Cheese Bites are much like the newly returned Cheesy Bites pizza by Pizza Hut. Both companies are presenting overfed Americans with exactly what they don’t need: a new way to eat carbs and molten cheese.

Thus: Mac & Cheese Bites, which are greasy balls of cheesy pasta covered in mediocre breading that warm up in the oven (not microwave) in 20 to 25 minutes.

If you’re in the mood for decent-quality mac ’n’ cheese that you can pop in your mouth without a fork, serve at a party as a trashy appetizer, or put in a coffee mug and eat as a hangover breakfast on your morning commute, Mac & Cheese Bites are a perfectly acceptable option. But do you need to do any of those things, really?